Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. We understand olive growing as the set of techniques that are applied to the cultivation of olive trees and other oleaginous plants as well as to the improvement of oil production. When we refer to the olive...

Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Christoph Sippel is a food chemist and has been working at Eurofins Analytik GmbH (Germany) since 2000. He is the Deputy Head of the Accredited Virgin Olive Oil Tasting Panel by the International Olive...

We are going to start this article by describing what ESAO is and what its purpose is. The Olive Oil School of Spain - ESAO, was born in 2010 with the aim of offering training on the olive oil sector. It was the first highly specialized school in the Olive Oil sector.

Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. The olive oil sector is gradually evolving towards a professionalized sector and where more and more training is becoming a requirement without which we see that there is no future.

Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. One of the main questions that ESAO students ask us, whether they are producers or marketers or entrepreneurs, is whether or not it is important that an olive oil is awarded, if the awards are important and...

Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. María José San Román, chef at the Monastrell restaurant, recognized with a Michelin Star since 2013, shares her relationship with olive oil and tells what it brings to her kitchen.

Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. José Miguel Herrero Velasco is the general director of the food industry. He has held different positions in the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. In addition, he is the author of several...

The sensory analysis of virgin olive oil is one of the great challenges of Spanish society.

Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. A master miller is the person in charge of carrying out the virgin olive oil extraction process. Nowadays he has also been called Production Manager.

On many occasions, we are arriving at the end of May in Spain suffering periods of temperatures about 5ºC higher than the average for those dates. Depending on the elevation above sea level, there will be olive trees in the moment of setting new fruits, opening the flower or...